Iran has arrested almost 50 people in connection with twin attacks on Tehran that killed 17 people last week, officials said, as security forces stepped up efforts to crack down on suspected militants. ISIS claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings and gun attacks on parliament and the...

A six-year old Iraqi Christian girl, kidnapped by Islamic State when she was three, was reunited with her family on Friday, and getting used to saying "mum" and "dad" once more. "The best day of my life is the day when Christina came back," said her mother, Aida Nuh, on Saturday. Dark...

Iraq's paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi forces said Saturday that they had retaken all areas west of Mosul from ISIS except the town of Tal Afar. The umbrella organisation, which is dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias, has been fighting primarily on a separate western front since the...

 Fighting between rival tribesmen in southern Iran left 22 people dead on Friday night, an Iranian lawmaker was quoted by ILNA news agency as saying on Saturday. "The incident last night in Ramhormoz county (in Khuzestan province) is rooted in an old tribal conflict," the lawmaker,...